Hazel Russman wrote:
While building toolchains in both chapter 5 and chapter 6, occasional dummy programs are compiled and the output checked for consistency. The instructions say to delete them and all related files afterwards. But all this work is being done in temporary directories created by tar, which will themselves be deleted next, so why the extra step?
Yes, you are right, but it really does not hurt anything. The extra instructions are just to make the tests symmetrical.
Many time with my students, I help them debug problems and go back and check with those tests. The location of the test is thus not always in the extracted directory. The deletion is there as a reminder no matter where the test is run.
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